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discovery · Source published 2026-09-10

An open model learns the Moon's surface.

NASA and IBM released a Lunar Foundation Model trained primarily on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data for research tasks such as crater and volcanic-feature mapping and possible polar-ice analysis.

discovery · Source published 2026-08-14

A twelve-hour earlier clue to where the Sun may change.

NASA reports that a COFFIES machine-learning model can predict the appearance of solar active regions, including far-side emergence, up to 12 hours before they appear.

discovery · Source published 2026-05-07

An Earth model runs above the Earth.

A compressed NASA–IBM Prithvi geospatial model ran on the Kanyini satellite and the ISS IMAGIN-e payload in flood and cloud detection demonstrations.

discovery · Source published 2026-06-04

A year of satellite observation, made lighter to carry.

TESSERA provides 10-meter, pixel-wise annual embeddings learned from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. ESA says the model first launched in 2025; its repository and a peer-reviewed CVPR 2026 paper now document the work.

discovery · Source published 2025-12-16

Ninety-nine million Hubble cutouts, and eight hundred overlooked oddities.

AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million Hubble Legacy Archive cutouts and the study reports 1,339 anomalies, more than 800 of them previously undocumented, with experts reviewing the candidates.

discovery · Source published 2025-07-09

Ohio put large new computing loads on a longer power contract.

An AEP Ohio tariff effective July 23, 2025 requires a load study for new or expanding data-center requests of at least 25 megawatts and creates minimum-demand, collateral and cancellation obligations.

discovery · Source published 2026-07-06

A city-owned reuse loop cut one data-center campus’s demand for potable groundwater.

Quincy owns and operates a reuse utility financed by Microsoft. EPA estimates that recirculating cooling-water blowdown avoids 138 million gallons a year of potable-groundwater demand; the loop still needs canal and groundwater make-up water.

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Loudoun budgets around a large data-center tax base—and a reserve for volatility.

Loudoun County reports $1.2 billion in data-center property-tax revenue for FY 2026 and projects $1.3 billion—40% of the county budget—for FY 2027, while maintaining a reserve for volatility.

discovery · Source published 2025-08-27

A Finnish district-heating network has used data-center heat since 2015.

Mäntsälä’s utility has circulated recovered server heat into the town-centre district-heating network since 2015. Nivos said in 2025 that it supplied about one-third of the network’s heat.

discovery · Source published 2026-05-29

A 12-week technician pathway led to 19 Oracle job offers.

Saint Martin’s University reports that 19 of 20 Spring 2026 data-center technician graduates received Oracle offers after a 12-week program; reported average starting pay was about $80,000 plus relocation.

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Google’s careers material maps the work inside a data center.

Google publishes a technician day-in-the-life video and a careers guide spanning hardware, electrical, cooling, network, logistics, and site operations. The material is useful for role orientation, not a verified worker outcome.

discovery · Source published 2022-10-19

A construction safety role became a data-center operations career.

Google’s 2022 profile says KP Philpot moved from contractor site-safety work on a data-center build into an environmental health and safety role at Alphabet’s Douglas County campus.

discovery · Source published 2025-06-27

A city report separates today’s campus workforce from expansion forecasts.

New Albany’s 2024 financial report describes about 200 existing Meta campus employees and 1,200 construction workers on the expansion site, while labeling 300 employees and 1,800 construction workers as future estimates.

discovery · Source published 2026-05-27

Pennsylvania defined conditions for state-supported data-center projects.

Pennsylvania’s May 2026 GRID standards make investment, workforce, energy, water and community commitments conditions of Commonwealth support; the thresholds are commitments, not jobs or savings already delivered.

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Ohio’s shared supercomputer served thousands of learners and researchers.

Ohio’s Legislative Service Commission reports that the Ohio Supercomputer Center served 9,725 clients from 2,345 organizations in FY 2024, including 65 academic institutions, and supported 209 courses teaching more than 6,750 students.

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Pittsburgh research computing helped test genomic risk signals—not a medical test.

A Northwestern-led team used Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 system to compare 211 childhood sudden-death genomes with 211 matched controls and reported associations for future study.

discovery · Source published 2025-08-22

A weather-model test ran faster on NOAA’s new research computer.

NOAA EPIC reports that one named Unified Forecast System regression test ran about 30–40% faster on Ursa than on Hera under the Intel compiler—a development result, not evidence of a more accurate forecast.

discovery · Source published 2025-12-18

FERC required PJM to keep grid obligations visible when large loads co-locate with power plants.

A December 2025 FERC order directed PJM to create service paths for large co-located loads, require payment for grid services, and assign specified reliability-upgrade costs before existing generation can redirect capacity.

discovery · Source published 2019-05-01

A hybrid cooling system cut direct water use at an operating national-laboratory data center.

DOE reports that NREL’s thermosyphon hybrid system avoided 2.10 million gallons over two years and cut data-center water use in half by using dry heat rejection when weather allowed while retaining a cooling tower for peak conditions.

discovery · Source published 2026-07-16

A township requires data-center sound to be modeled, measured after startup, and corrected when limits are missed.

East Brandywine Township’s July 2026 ordinance requires qualified preconstruction modeling and an as-built study within 180 days, including peak cooling, generators under load, low-frequency sound, calibration records, corrective action and retesting.